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International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
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Research Chronicler
A Peer-Reviewed Refereed and Indexed International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
Volume II Issue III: March – 2014
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Author
Dr. Jeyaseelan
Gnanaseelan
Abolfazl Ramazani &
Sima Sharbaz
Dr. Shamala Ratnakar
Title of the Paper
A Corpus Analysis of the Prepositions used in Letter Writing
in English
Dialogic Voices in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Multicultural Identity and Immigrant Tradition in Rohinton
Mistry’s Squatter
Shachi Sood
& The Woman in the Body: Locating the Individuality within
Dr. Vandhana Sharma Patriarchy in Dattani’s Thirty Days in September and Ek Alag
Mausam
R. Saradha
From a Marginalist Vacuum towards a Nominalist
Continuum: A study of Shoban Bantwal’s The Dowry Bride
Dr. M. Lavanya
& Perceived Physical and Psychological Stress among Higher
Prof. Dr. R. Ganesan
Secondary School Students:
A Pilot Study
Dr. Shivaji Sargar & Allusiveness in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot with special reference
Prof. Shivaji Kalwale
to The Waste Land
Dr. R. R. Thorat
Use of Mythical Symbols in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
Dr. Pooja Singh
& Glam to Sham: Woman’s Innate Desire for Commitment
Dr. Archana
Dr. Sudhendu Giri
Modern Entrepreneurial Spirit in an Urbanised Economy
Ali Arian
The Elements of Humanity and Sufism in Henry David
Thoreau’s Walden
Tania Mary Vivera
Mindscaping Oskar Schell: Mental Spaces and Conceptual
Blending in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Mr. Chaitanya V.
Digital Video Watermarking Using DWT
and PCA in
Mahamuni
Encrypted Domain
Dr. Aruna
Behaviour of Consumers Regarding Electronic Goods in Pune
Region
B. Moses
Syntax and Semantic Problems in Translating Indira
Parthasarathy’s Helicoptergal Keezhe Irangi Vittana into
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Dr. Yogesh Jain
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Mutual Funds & Other Financial Instruments: A Study of
Customer Behaviour with special reference to Udaipur
Dr. S. Karthikkumar
Feminism vs. Humanism in Anita Rau Badami’sThe Hero’s
Walk
Dr. Shivani Jha
Ecocriticism and Ecocritical Interpretations of Selected
Recent Indian Writings in English
Abu Siddik
Vivekananda’s Vision of Religion: A Brief Survey of
Hinduism and Islam
S.A. Thameemul
Best Practices in ELT: A Need for Reflection in the English
Ansari
Classroom
S. Rajeswari
The Big Heart: Conflict between Tradition and Modernity
Prof. Arvindkumar A. Western Women in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being
Kamble
Earnest’
Prabal J. Roddannavar The Representation of Hatred in The Bluest Eye
Prof. Divya Chansoria Democracy, Human Rights and Its Implementation
& Mr. Umakant Gajbir
Mr. Chandan Bharti
An Analysis of Habitat Fragmentation and Recent
Mishra
Bottlenecks Influence
Dr. Shilpa Mishra
The Politics of HRM in India
Megha Katoria
Representation or Misrepresentation: Image of Women in
Media
Dr. Ram Kalap Tiwari Role of Spiritual Activities to Strengthen Mental Health and
Well Being of Adolescents
Chintan V. Pandya, Antifungal Activity of Crude Extract of Butea Monosperma
Jignasu P. Mehta,
Aditee J. Jadeja &
B. A. Golakiya
Dr. Jaydeep Singh
Computer par Hindi Suchana Praudyogikike Vikasmein
Dangi
Badha Nahin Balki Vikas Hain
Angela Sadeghi
A Rebellion through Confession – A Note on the
Tehrani
Confessional Tone of the Poems of Kamala Das and Forough
Farrokhzad
Dr. Riktesh Srivastava Analysis of n-Tier Electronic Commerce Architecture Using
Different Queuing Models
Nima Shakouri
Revisiting the Role of Gender in the Use of Language
Learning Strategies: A Poststructuralist Look
Shahnawaz Ahmad
Geo-strategic Importance of Bangladesh in Contemporary
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South Asia: An Analysis of Bangladesh-US Partnership
Ashish Kumar
Social Entrepreneurships in India: An Exploratory Study
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Glam to Sham: Woman’s Innate Desire for Commitment
Dr. Pooja Singh & Dr. Archana
BBD NITM, Lucknow, (U.P.) India
Abstract
Suicide is a serious danger in people who have schizophrenia. If an individual tries to commit
suicide or threatens to do so, professional help should be sought immediately. People with
schizophrenia have a higher rate of suicide than the general population. Approximately 10
percent of people with schizophrenia (especially younger and adult females) commit suicide.
Unfortunately, the prediction of suicide in people with schizophrenia can be especially difficult.
The triangular theory of love explains the topic of love in an interpersonal relationship.
Psychologist Robert Sternberg‘s theory describes types of love based on three different scales:
intimacy, passion, and commitment. It is important to recognize that a relationship based on a
single element is less likely to survive than one based on two or more.
Key Words: Suicide, Depression, actress, crazy, madness, diva.
Suicide is a serious danger in people who
have schizophrenia. If an individual tries to
commit suicide or threatens to do so,
professional help should be sought
immediately. People with schizophrenia
have a higher rate of suicide than the general
population. Approximately 10 percent of
people with schizophrenia (especially
younger adult males) commit suicide.
Unfortunately, the prediction of suicide in
people with schizophrenia can be especially
difficult.
is less likely to survive than one based on
two or more.
Triangular theory of love
1. Liking in this case is not used in a trivial
sense. Sternberg says that this intimate
liking characterizes true friendships; in
which a person feels a bond, a warmth and
closeness with another, but not intense
passion or long-term commitment.
Different stages and types of love can be
explained as different combinations of these
three elements. For example, the relative
emphasis of each component changes over
time as an adult romantic relationship
develops.
Types of Love
Combinations of intimacy, passion, and
commitment
The triangular theory of love explains the
topic of love in an interpersonal relationship.
Psychologist Robert Sternberg‘s theory
describes types of love based on three
different scales: intimacy, passion, and
commitment. It is important to recognize
that a relationship based on a single element
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2. Infatuated love is often what is felt as
―love at first sight.‖ But without the
intimacy and the commitment components
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of love, infatuated love may disappear
suddenly.
loves can die‖ (1987, p.341). Consummate
love may not be permanent. For example, if
passion is lost over time, it may change into
companionate love. The balance among
Sternberg‘s three aspects of love is likely to
shift through the course of a relationship. A
strong dose of all three components-found in
consummate love-typifies, for many of us,
an ideal relationship. However time alone
does not cause intimacy, passion, and
commitment to occur and grow. Knowing
about these components of love may help
couples avoid pitfalls in their relationship,
work on the areas that need improvement or
help them recognize when it might be time
for a relationship to come to an end.
3. Empty love: Sometimes, a stronger love
deteriorates into empty love, in which the
commitment remains, but the intimacy and
passion have died. In cultures in which
arranged
marriages
are
common,
relationships often begin as empty love.
4. Romantic love: Romantic lovers are
bonded emotionally (as in liking) and
physically through passionate arousal.
5. Companionate love is often found in
marriages in which the passion has gone out
of the relationship, but a deep affection and
commitment remain. Companionate love is
generally a personal relation you build with
somebody you share your life with, but with
no sexual or physical desire.
Intimacy
Non-love
Liking/friendsh
ip
Infatuated love
Empty love
Romantic love
Companionate
love
Fatuous love
Consummate
love
It is stronger than friendship because of the
extra element of commitment. The love
ideally shared between family members is a
form of companionate love, as is the love
between deep friends or those who spend a
lot of time together in any asexual but
friendly relationship.
6. Fatuous love can be exemplified by a
whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a
commitment is motivated largely by passion,
without the stabilizing influence of intimacy.
Passio
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7. Consummate love is the complete form of
love, representing the ideal relationship
toward which many people strive but which
apparently few achieve. Sternberg cautions
that maintaining a consummate love may be
even harder than achieving it. He stresses
the
importance
of translating
the
components of love into action. ―Without
expression,‖ he warns, ―even the greatest of
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woman‘s sense of safety. Sometimes a
woman will trade one of these comforts for
another in her relationship. It is emotional
safety that I want to address. It is the one
that creates a great deal of confusion.
In contemporary society we consider men
and women equal. The conventional role of
a woman has changed. Since time
immemorial she is considered as the counter
part of the male in the society. Her
traditional role of the bearer and rearer has
now changed. But if we talk about the
sexuality of both the sexes then there is a big
question mark on the women. Even today
she is expected to be the receiver not the
initiator in those acts which are directly or
indirectly connected with sex or sexual
encounters. Therefore becoming a sex
symbol in public is not an easy task for a
woman and those who have dared especially
if we talk about Hollywood, Bollywood and
Tollywood in so many years had a severe
downfall in their personal as well as
professional and social life.
Love, acceptance, respect, to be desired,
security, passion, are all things a woman
may want in her relationship. As a matter of
fact these are basics that probably everyone
wants. There are certainly others and each
person has specific desires. What I want to
focus on here is the specific aspect of
emotional safety in relationships.
The challenge in satisfying this desire is that
the feeling of ―safe‖ is sometimes generated
from opposing dynamics, and this can create
conflict. How a woman feels with a man can
change moment to moment depending on
these opposing forces this can lead to
confusion about what she wants. It can also
confuse the man as she appears to want two
different things. If we become aware of the
conflicting beliefs paradigms this can begin
to make a lot more sense and clear up the
confusion.
Women have always been a matter of
enigma for all whenever she had tried to
break the chains of her ideal identity she had
to face several negative repercussions.
Woman‘s sexuality is always seen as
secondary to men because what men wanted
from women was always important and
women were expected to oblige. A
revolution came in the latter decades of the
20th century and earlier years of the 21 st
century in the thinking of women when
several strong sexual characters like Marilyn
Monroe, Silk Smitha, Parveen Babi, Nafeesa
Joseph, Jiah Khan glazed the silver screen.
These actors changed the very meaning of
feminine sexuality. They portrayed from
First let‘s understand some of the aspects
that create a feeling of safety in a
relationship. A man‘s unconditional
acceptance of a woman means that there is
no judgment and criticism. She can
communicate honestly, be herself, and feel
emotionally safe. There are also physical
and financial factors that can appeal to a
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their bold scenes and characters in the
movies that woman is something else.
Desire and sex no longer remained the
prerogative of the men in fact they now
became an object in the life of these desirous
and desirable women.
suicides among men in India are between
the ages of 15 and 29 years.
Jiah Khan began her career in filmdom with
two high profile movies, „Nishabd‟ and
„Ghajini‟; she was also a part of the multistarrer „Houseful‟. She appeared to have
had a promising career ahead of her.
Suicide is synonymous with speculation. She
was dissatisfied with her romantic
relationship and the roles that she was
offered in forthcoming films. She was indeed
suffering from depression for a short while.
However, depression is not just „feeling
blue‟. All people tend to feel sad sometimes
but most are able to move on from that
feeling to a more positive state of mind. A
depressed person stays with the sadness for
a longer period of time and his/her mood
also affects and disrupts his/her day-to-day
life.
When we peek in the personal life of thee
divas there is nothing but vacuum; it‘s
beyond imagination that women who
reigned and haunted each heart had no one
to call their own; whom everyone desired
actually nobody wanted. After all what
could have happened that these women
either took their own lives or died desolate
and alone? After enjoying such a glamorous,
centre stage and spot light life were they
scared of being alone? Or at heart every
woman needs love, commitment, stability
and home to call their own was driving them
insane? There is hidden desire in women
they want to be home maker. Were these sex
symbols marred by this same desire or guilt
of revealing the private to public gnawed at
them alive? After all they were even girls
next door kind.
Global statistics regarding the subject are
quite revealing. They show that depression
affects one in five women and one in 10 men
at some point in their lives. Depression is,
therefore, a serious public health concern.
However in the case of India, there is still a
social stigma attached to approaching a
mental health professional for help. There is
a difference between depression, feeling sad
or „blue‟? Some of the symptoms of
depression are a prolonged feeling of
sadness over a period of more than two
weeks, loss of sleep or sleeping more than
usual, reduced or increased appetite,
irritability, loss of pleasure in normal
activities and generally decreased energy
levels.
Jiah Khan, a 25-year old Bollywood actress,
who committed suicide by hanging herself
made news as she was in the show
business... Earlier show business stars like
Guru Dutt, Parveen Babi, Nafisa Joseph,
„Silk‟ Smitha, and the legendary Hollywood
celebrity Marilyn Monroe also took their
lives. Why did these rich and famous
celebrities take such a drastic step?
According to World Health Organization
(WHO) estimates, India records one of the
highest suicide rates in the world, with 1.7
lakh victims every year. Over half the total
suicides among women and 40 per cent of
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Jiah the emerging actor in an interview to a
daily said, “She told about her getting
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abused by her former boyfriends and how an
older man had raped her when she was 14
in London and how at one point in her life,
she would get only one meal a day”. All this
led to troubled mind set, depression, need
for commitment, stability, and love. Before
committing suicide she might have thought
that, ―It‘s better to be unhappy alone than
unhappy with someone.‖
Her item numbers in films like Amaran were
also celebrated at the box office. Some film
critics, historians and journalists have
referred to her as a ―soft porn‖ actress.
The screaming headline in a southern film
tabloid back in 1980s said it all – ―Only sex
and Smitha sell in the south.‖ That was the
truth if there was any at the time. 1982 was a
great year for southern actor Silk Smitha
who had nine releases lined up. Even though
all the films looked the same, no one was
complaining because at the time the crowds
just went to see her on screen and no one
could get enough. Every time the star came
on screen, they screamed ―Silk‖. This was
followed by a deluge of cat calls and
whistles. She was the star, rather superstar.
Everything she touched turned to silk. Every
movie she starred in turned to gold. Silk had
arrived but she had taken the tough route.
Silk Smitha (2 December 1960 – 23
September 1996) was a South Indian cinema
actress. Even though Smitha appeared in
some character roles, she became popular
through her glamorous appearances in
softcore films. Born as Vijayalakshimi into a
poor family in Eluru (in Andhra Pradesh),
she left school after the fourth standard,
determined to become a film star. Moving in
with her aunt in Madras (then the centre of
the South Indian film industry), her first job
was as a ―touch-up‖ girl to small starlet. But
a life of foundation and lipstick was not for
her, she soon found a sponsor who renamed
her Smitha. Silk landed her first break in the
Malayalam film - Inaye Thedi - in 1979.
Dusky damsel is what the critics called her.
Her dark complexion, pouting lips and sultry
half inviting eyes gave her an edge and her
next role. After garnering much notice and
acclaim with her first major role, in the
Tamil movie Vandi Chakkaram (The
Wheel), in 1979, Smitha assumed the name
―Silk,‖ after her character‘s name in the
movie. Silk Smitha went on to star in over
200 Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada
and a few Hindi films. Her dance numbers
and her bold performances in films like
Moondru Mugam have made her the
ultimate symbol of sensuality in Tamil,
Kannada. Malayalam and Telugu cinema.
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The vast majority of her movies are softcore
and a common theme is her playing a
freakishly strong agent in skimpy bikinis
beating up huge thugs. Even in the rare nonsexual roles, she impressed critics and
audiences, such as her role of a wife hurt by
her husband‘s infidelity in Alaigal
Oivathillai (1981). One of her films,
Layanam, has earned a cult status in the
Indian adult film industry, and was remade
as Reshma ki Jawani. Her most respected
film is Moondram Pirai, remade as Sadma.
Smitha was found dead in 1996 in her
Chennai apartment. In the previous year she
had tried to shift career in order to become a
film
producer.
Financial
problems,
disillusionment in love and an alcohol
dependency apparently led to depression. It
is suspected that Smitha committed suicide.
She was full of life but she gave that up may
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be thinking, ―I don‘t mind living in a man‘s
world, as long as I can be a woman in it.‖
refuge in philosopher and Guru UG
Krishnamurthy, Parveen Babi walked down
the Mumbai airport tarmac in November
1989 holding a placard that read ‗Parveen
Babi‘. She knew her longtime secretary Ved
Sharma, who was there to receive her,
wouldn‘t be able to recognize her.
Imagine a superstar, who epitomized the
bold, the beautiful and the bohemian,
reportedly being handcuffed and anklecuffed and carried by four policemen from
the JFK airport in New York to a mental
hospital because she refused to go through
the
customary
checks
growing
uncontrollably hysterical… Imagine a top
heroine chucking up the sizzle of B-town to
seek solace and sanity with a guruphilosopher in the US. And while she did
return to ‗functional sanity‘ the first time she
came back, the second time round she‘d
reached a point of no return.
While the restrained Ved Sharma, now in his
late 70s, feels protective about his late star
client Parveen, his son, the young Lalit
Sharma is more forthcoming about sharing
impressions and memories of ‗aunty‘ as he
addressed the actor. Says Lalit, ―Papa saw a
fat lady with soda bottle and thick glasses at
the airport, her hair all messed up, holding a
board with her name! Parveen aunty had put
on a lot of weight and had changed beyond
recognition.‖ He reflects, ―With due respect
to her mental state, it‘s a curse for a
beautiful woman to lose her looks.‖
Parveen Babi‘s nemesis lived within her. In
the demons of her mind. The most exquisite
face to have hit the Hindi screen in the
1970s, Parveen reportedly suffered from
paranoid schizophrenia, which triggered a
systematic disintegration of her personality
and life. Some claim that her mental
disorder was a result of substance-induced
psychosis and alcoholism. Some blame a
series of failed relationships with Danny
Denzongpa, Kabir Bedi and most
importantly Mahesh Bhatt. Some link it to a
genetic disorder. And some even to an
adolescent trauma where reportedly a young,
trembling Parveen was hidden under a heap
of mattresses in a truck by the nuns of her
school during the Ahmadabad riots in the
1960s. The fear of being killed continued to
be the subtext of her life… only to
eventually kill her.
She was the only Indian actress to have
featured on the cover of Time magazine.‖
But she had a homely side too. Beneath the
makeup and behind the smile she was just a
simple girl who wished for the world.
Her most intense relationship was with
Mahesh Bhatt. He was a struggler then and
she a big-time actress. But when your
girlfriend expects you to leave your wife, it
gets dicey. Also, when a man gets involved
with a mentally-depressed woman, his life
becomes hell. Parveen was always insecure
of losing her men. With due respect to her
mental state, she was a confused and scared
personality.
Incidentally, when Parveen first felt
something snapping within her, she was
introduced to guru and philosopher UG
Krishnamurthy by Mahesh Bhatt. In
What could be more heartbreaking than a
superstar having to identify herself? Six
years after she fled to the USA to seek
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According to Bhatt, ―Parveen felt guilty
about our relationship, she tried to cover it
up with her put-on western attitude but she
was very conventional.‖
September 1979, she quit the industry to
follow her guru. She returned the following
year rejuvenated and went on to do super
hits like Shaan, Kaalia, Namak Halaal,
Khud-daar and Mahaan (between 1980-82)
Reportedly, she had broken off with Mahesh
Bhatt by then.
Actress Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma
Jeane Mortensen on June 1, 1926 in Los
Angeles, California. During her all-too-brief
life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult
childhood to become of the world‘s biggest
and most enduring sex symbols. During her
career, Monroe‘s films grossed more than
$200 million. Monroe died of a drug
overdose on August 5, 1962, at only 36
years old.
In July 1983, at the peak of her career,
Parveen abruptly left India to be with UG in
the US again. Allegedly, the release of
Mahesh Bhatt‘s Arth (Bhatt‘s semiautobiographical film based on his turbulent
relationship with Parveen) and her disturbed
state of mind led her to ditch it all for good.
And when she returned from the US again in
1989, she was a different Parveen altogether.
Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane
Mortensen (later baptized as Norma Jeane
Baker) on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles,
California. During her all-too-brief life,
Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult
childhood to become of the world‘s biggest
and most enduring sex symbols. She never
knew her father, and once thought Clark
Gable to be her father—a story repeated
often enough for a version of it to gain some
currency. However, there‘s no evidence that
Gable ever met or knew Monroe‘s mother,
Gladys,
who
developed
psychiatric
problems and was eventually placed in a
mental institution. As an adult, Monroe
would maintain that one of her earliest
memories was of her mother trying to
smother her in her crib with a pillow.
Monroe had a half-sister, to whom she was
not close; they met only a half-dozen times.
There were a lot of bizarre incidents related
to Parveen Babi and she suffered from
extreme mental trauma. In fact, in keeping
with her bizarre behaviour, Parveen had
assigned shares to her dead relatives in her
will. Finally, Parveen Wali Mohammed
Khan Babi was buried next to her mother at
Santa Cruz, Mumbai on January 23, 2005.
But to all those who once knew her, she had
died long ago.
It was with Arth that Bhatt‘s fascination
with immortalizing Parveen Babi on the
silver screen began. In Bhatt‘s own words
Arth was a semi-autobiographical film
about his relationship with Babi. Through
Kavita, Smita Patil delivered a convincing
performance as a mentally unstable actress.
The role was small, but was far more
complex than that of Shabana Azmi‘s in the
film. In the last scene of Arth, Kavita (Patil)
tells Pooja (Shabana) ―I fell in love with a
man, not your husband. I wanted a home of
my own, I didn‘t want to break your home.‖
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Growing up, Monroe spent much of her time
in foster care and in an orphanage. In 1937,
a family friend and her husband, Grace and
Doc Goddard, took care of Monroe for a few
years. The Goddards were paid $25 weekly
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by Monroe‘s mother to raise her. The couple
was deeply religious and followed
fundamentalist doctrines; among other
prohibited activities, Monroe was not
allowed to go to the movies. But when
Doc‘s job was transferred in 1942 to the
East Coast, the couple could not afford to
bring Monroe with them. At 7 years old,
Monroe returned to a life in foster homes,
where she was on several occasions sexually
assaulted; she later said that she had been
raped when she was 11 years old. But she
had one way out—get married. She wed her
boyfriend Jimmy Dougherty on June 19,
1942, at the age of 16. By that time, Monroe
had dropped out of high school (age 15). A
merchant marine, Dougherty was later sent
to the South Pacific. Monroe went to work
in a munitions factory in Burbank,
California, where she was discovered by a
photographer. By the time Dougherty
returned in 1946, Monroe had a successful
career as a model, and had changed her
name to Marilyn Monroe in preparation for
an acting career. She dreamt of becoming an
actress like Jean Harlow and Lana Turner.
Caswell in All About Eve, starring Bette
Davis.
She would soon become one of Hollywood‘s
most famous actresses; though she wasn‘t
initially considered to be star acting
material, she later proved her skill by
winning various honors and attracting large
audiences to her films.
Starring as a young married woman out to
kill her husband with help from her lover.
The emerging sex symbol was paired with
another bombshell, Jane Russell, for the
musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953). The film was a hit and Monroe
continued to find success in a string of light
comedic fare, such as How to Marry a
Millionaire with Betty Grable and Lauren
Bacall, There‘s No Business like Show
Business (1954) with Ethel Merman and
Donald O‘Connor, and The Seven Year Itch
(1955).
With her breathy voice and hourglass figure,
Monroe
became
a
much-admired
international star, despite her chronic
insecurities regarding her acting abilities.
Monroe suffered from preperformance
anxiety that sometimes made her physically
ill and was often the root cause of her
legendary tardiness on films sets, which was
so extreme that it often infuriated her costars and crew. ―She would be the greatest if
she ran like a watch,‖ director Billy Wilder
once said of her. ―I have an aunt Minnie
who‘s very punctual, but who would pay to
see Aunt Minnie?‖ Throughout her career,
Monroe was signed and released from
several contracts with film studios. Tired of
bubbly, dumb blonde roles, Monroe moved
to New York City to study acting with Lee
Monroe‘s marriage to Dougherty fizzled out
as she focused more on her career. The
couple divorced in 1946—the same year that
Monroe signed her first movie contract.
With the movie contract came a new name
and image; she began calling herself
―Marilyn Monroe‖ and dyed her hair blonde.
But her acting career didn‘t really take off
until the 1950s. Her small part in John
Huston‗s crime drama The Asphalt Jungle
(1950) garnered her lot of attention. That
same year, she impressed audiences and
critics alike with her performance as Claudia
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Strasberg at the Actors‘ Studio. She returned
to the screen in the dramatic comedy Bus
Stop (1956), playing a saloon singer
kidnapped by a rancher who has fallen in
love with her. She received mostly praise for
her performance.
Her 1954 marriage to baseball great Joe
DiMaggio only lasted nine months (she wed
playwright Arthur Miller from 1956 to
1961). Monroe made her now-famous
performance at John F. Kennedy‘s birthday
celebration, singing ―Happy Birthday, Mr.
President.‖
In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar
territory with the wildly popular comedy
Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon and
Tony Curtis. She played Sugar Kane
Kowalczyk, a singer who hopes to marry a
millionaire in this humorous film, in which
Lemmon and Curtis pretend to be women.
They are on the run from the mob after
witnessing the St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre
and hide out with an all-girl orchestra
featuring Monroe. Her work on the film
earned her the honor of ―Best Actress in a
Comedy‖ in 1959, at Golden Globe Awards.
Reunited with John Huston, Monroe starred
opposite Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift
in The Misfits (1961). Set in Nevada, this
adventure drama features Monroe, who falls
for Gable‘s cowboy but battles him over the
fate of some wild mustangs. This was her
last completed film. In 1962, Monroe was
dismissed from Something‘s Got to Give—
also starring Dean Martin—for missing so
many days of filming. According to an
article in The New York Times, the actress
claimed that the absences were due to
illness. Martin declined to make the film
without her, so the studio shelved the
picture. At the time, Monroe‘s professional
and personal life seemed to be in turmoil.
Her last two films, Let‘s Make Love (1960)
and The Misfits (1961) were box office
disappointments.
On August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old,
Marilyn Monroe died at her Los Angeles
home. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was
found by her bed. There has been some
speculation over the years that she may have
been murdered, but the cause of her death
was officially ruled as a drug overdose.
There have been rumors that Monroe was
involved with President John F. Kennedy
and/or his brother Robert around the time of
her death.
Monroe was buried in her favorite Emilio
Pucci dress, in what was known as a
―Cadillac casket‖—the most high-end casket
available, made of heavy-gauge solid bronze
and lined with champagne-colored silk. Lee
Strasberg delivered a eulogy before a small
group of friends and family. Hugh Hefner
bought the crypt directly next to Monroe‘s,
and Monroe‘s ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio,
famously had red roses delivered to her
crypt for the next 20 years.
Monroe did not own a house until the last
year of her life, and had surprisingly few
possessions. One that she prized was an
autographed photo of Albert Einstein, which
included an inscription: ―To Marilyn, with
respect and love and thanks.‖
During her career, Marilyn Monroe‘s films
grossed more than $200 million. Today, she
is still considered the world‘s most popular
icon of sex appeal and beauty, and is
In her personal life, she had a string of
unsuccessful marriages and relationships.
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remembered for her idiosyncratic sense of
humor and sly wit; once asked by a reporter
what she wore to bed, she replied, ―Chanel
Number 5.‖ On another occasion, she was
asked what she thought of Hollywood. ―If I
close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I
see is one big varicose vein,‖ she replied.
and good sex. But the case has to be
chronological. Ironically these women got
all the attention, admiration, love and good
sex but the things without a relationship
cannot survive is commitment and stability;
which they were fully deprived. As it has
been rightly said, A wise woman kisses but
doesn‘t loves, listens but doesn‘t believes,
and leaves before she is left. No one can
imagine the sense of insecurity she is marred
by.
The final years of Monroe‘s life were
marked by illness, personal problems, and a
reputation for unreliability and being
difficult to work with. The circumstances of
her death, from an overdose of barbiturates,
have been the subject of conjecture. Though
officially classified as a ―probable suicide‖;
the possibility of an accidental overdose and
that of homicide have not been ruled out. In
1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth
greatest female star of all time by the
American Film Institute. In the decades
following her death, she has often been cited
as a pop and a cultural icon as well as the
quintessential American sex symbol.
Human beings are in search of novelty
throughout their life and this search leads to
human interactions and relationships. For a
person complete isolation is out of question.
By instinct humans are social in nature and
desire, love, passion; companionship is
inevitable for them. Therefore, social
anomic crisis occurs due to the lack of above
mentioned characteristics. Hence suicide,
mental disorders including depression,
anxiety, mood swings etc. are the resultant
factors of these unsatisfied feelings and
desires. The question is what an individual
wants in his or her life and specially
females. Women need to be desired, loved
and emotional and social security is of
primary importance for them. Thus the
trauma starts in a woman‘s life when she is
deprived of such things. We must consider
that, ―She is good, but not an angel. She
does sin, but is not a devil. She is just a
small girl in a big world trying to find
someone to love.‖ Sex symbol is even a
woman first who craves to be a home maker.
Yes that‘s true in hearts of her hearts every
woman wishes to be a home maker
cocooned in the walls of her husband‘s fort.
Every woman wants to believe that no
matter how many women her man has loved
(or thought he loved) before, he loves her
infinitely more. What he thought was love
was nothing compared to how he feels for
her. He should show her that he is proud to
call her his—in public, to his friends, family,
and strangers. Imagine women whom every
man desired but no one had the audacity to
commit would have felt so lonely and
pained as Marilyn Monroe said, ―Being a
sex symbol is a heavy load to carry,
especially when one is tired, hurt and
bewildered.‖ A statistic says that women
need four things love, commitment, stability
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